Corinne Shepherd and Emily Sadler are two interns working at Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). For two weeks, they spent time organising a March to mark the launch of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) 41st Ordinary Session which is being held in Accra between the 16th and 30th May.
As a result on Tuesday 15th May they, a number of other volunteers, a cross-section of community groups, government bodies and non-governmental organisations came to support and march which Project Abroad sponsored. Commencing at Kwame Nkrumah Circle the march also saw speeches made by key members of society who had expertise in the area of reproductive health rights.
The ACHPR’s Session focused on reproductive health issues in Africa including unsafe abortions, lack of access to contraception, inadequate sex education, HIV/AIDS and female genital mutilation. The purpose of the march is to highlight these reproductive health issues to the public and to increase their awareness of women’s health and reproductive rights in Accra.
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